Whoa, thanks all for the outpouring of kindness :-o
I'm back to real life from the break, so please bear with some little 1-hour lunch updates that's gonna come up! Dislike how flat everything is, so I'm going to focus on value grouping now that I have a much larger screen to see the whole picture on.
@Gil_Ascher: THank you so much!
@kriros: Thank you!
@captdiablo: Appreciate it! I'm active on facebook and artstation: https://www.artstation.com/graceliu
@phume10: Thank you!
Was polishing along this morning and suddenly I think I've figured out why the composition bugs me. 1. the scale of the fire dude and the earth elemental are too similar. 2. there is zero foreground in this picture :-o
Here's a fix-in-progress. I'll need to look at it later to see if I've ended up over-filling the image. I would guess I'll need quite a bit more value adjustments around the middle parts to get the value composition to work again, but I think the balance between the figures is much better. Also drew over the fire elemental to try to make his design less boring and flow better.
Ahh wow this looks amazing! So colourful and full of life. Personally I think it's difficult to tell immediately of the element considering the first hit I get is green, nature based but the used of the gradient from blue to green to red is really pleasing to the eye. Wish you the best of luck with your piece